July 25th - Exercises 5° grade

Hello,

boys and girls these are the exercises we will work on this class to practice the topic Making history + simple past DID.

EXPLANATION

(Write the following information in your notebook)

July 25th, 2017
TOPIC: Making history + simple past DID

YEARS AND PREPOSITION "IN"

1) From 2000 onwards, years are pronounced like ordinary cardinal numbers.

2000 - two thousand
2003 - two thousand and three

2) Earlier years are pronounced differently: the first two figures are a number and the last two figures are a number. 

1999 - nineteen (hundred and) ninety-nine

3) Add "and"  if the last two figures are 00 through 09.

1806 - eighteen hundred and six / eighteen oh six

If you want to give the year without an exact date, use the preposition in:

I was born in 1972.

EXERCISES

Match the years and words

Match the date and words

Notebook exercise:

Write in words the year of the following events:

Birth of Sofia Vergara =

Discovery of America =

Birth of Juanes =

French revolution =

Independence of Colombia =

Birth of Simon Bolivar =

Death of Gabriel García Márquez =

Birth of Shakira =